VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, book, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, programming/c++, society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
2. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, politics, research, science-fiction, society/demographics, weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
3. Steam Audio - A full-featured audio solution that integrates environment and listener simulation 2024-04-02

   tags: audio, game-engine/fmod, game-engine/unity, game-engine/unreal, game/steam, programming/c++, virtual-reality

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   • Steam Audio Open Source Release
   • ValveSoftware/steam-audio
4. The Bibites - A simulation where you are able to watch evolution happen before your very eyes! 2023-07-22

   tags: game, game/simulation, genetic-algorithm, graphics/2d, procedural-generation

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5. Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir? | X-Plane Developer 2021-08-19

   tags: game/multiplayer, game/simulation, performance, plane, programming/elixir, programming/erlang

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   via https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/

6. Q2VKPT - a game that is entirely raytraced and efficiently simulates fully dynamic lighting in real-time 2019-02-01

   tags: graphics/3d, graphics/ray-tracing, image, programming/c, programming/c++, render

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   • https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt/
7. OpenSC2K - An Open Source remake of Sim City 2000 by Maxis 2018-04-02

   tags: city, game, graphics/webgl, programming/javascript, sandbox, simulation

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   • https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/
8. WEATHER FACTORY | WHAT IS CULTIST SIMULATOR? 2017-08-19

   tags: card, game, indie, story

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   • www.pcgamer.com/my-creative-calling-is-to-freak-people-the-f-out-says-alexis-kennedy-on-cultist-simulator/
9. An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia' | GamingOnLinux 2017-02-02

   tags: fiction, game, hardcore, linux, science, simulation, space, survival

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   "Currently I am coding love and relationships into the game, and am having to deal with some colonists who are getting a bit polyamorous with the non-sentient furniture items. I am yet to decide as to whether this is a bug."

10. Dragon Tax Return Simulator 2015 2016-10-11

    tags: dragon, game/role-playing-game, income, parody, peasant, tax, wtf

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    https://github.com/walsh9/dragon-taxes

11. Bear Simulator 2014-05-13

    tags: bear, game, indie, kickstarter, simulator, teddy, wtf, wwf

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12. Steam Greenlight :: City Car Driving 2013-08-29

    tags: car, city, drive, game, realistic, simulation

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    Wanna rehearse for your driving license?

13. BeamNG.com - About 2013-08-14

    tags: car, driving, game, indie, physics, simulation

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    Realistic physics: vehicle deformation after damage, collisions or accidents... time for havoc! There's a tech demo available, and BeamNG.drive's Alpha is available for purchase

14. Spintires -- The ultimate off-road challenge! by Oovee Game Studios — Kickstarter 2013-07-30

    tags: driving, game, nature, outdoor, sandbox, simulation, truck

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    4WD outdoor simulation, with various vehicles, ranging from the small jeep to the huge forest truck; the elaborated physics engine includes dynamic terrain deformation and realistic driving

15. Spintires 2013-06-07

    tags: driving, game, nature, outdoor, sandbox, simulation, truck

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    4WD outdoor simulation, with various vehicles, ranging from the small jeep to the huge forest truck; the elaborated physics engine includes dynamic terrain deformation and realistic driving